Selected quad for the lemma: duty_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	belong_v	master_n	servant_n	1,211	5	7.2439	4	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13392	The housholders philosophie VVherein is perfectly and profitably described, the true oeconomia and forme of housekeeping. With a table added thereunto of all the notable thinges therein contained. First written in Italian by that excellent orator and poet Signior Torquato Tasso, and now translated by T.K. Whereunto is anexed a dairie booke for all good huswiues.; Padre di famiglia. English	Tasso, Torquato, 1544-1595.; Kyd, Thomas, 1558-1594.; Dowe, Bartholomew.	1588 (1588)	STC 23703; ESTC S118163	51,567	88

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